Janice -- I agree that there's a difference between reading Erato for fifteen minutes and polishing a poem, but I hope you know I wrote that particular sentence tongue-in-cheek. I still stand behind my point, though, insofar as one can MAKE time for art. If it matters to you enough, you have to make the sacrifice of half an hour a day...or a couple of hours on a weekend.
Right Shaun, we're cool.
Every writing woman know that you have to pay more attention to polishing the poem than to polishing the windows.
That's an easy sacrifice and that's how she makes time.
Sorry if it seemed all of my previous post was directed at you. I am editing to clarify. We're friends, we're cool.
PS Because we are friends, I am adding this about your:
Basically, I think it is every woman's right to say to her husband / partner, "Honey, I need you to look after the kids for an hour while I get some writing done in the study." Any husband who doesn't respect that is, well, a jerk. I'm dead serious. It's every human's inborn right to have some time to oneself.
Congratulations on your impending marriage. Here is my unasked for advice. Don't wait for for your wife to ask "Honey, I need you to look after the kids for an hour while I get some writing done in the study." Shouldn't that be "our kids", or maybe an hour and fifteen minutes or maybe how about the husband asking, "Honey, etc."
I'm so glad I'm not young anymore.